how much we have to wait???? cant you people start a kickstarter campaign or make an android app say launcher to start your campaign with>?
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 5:25 PM, Matth <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Leonardo, > > Effectively FirefoxOS has be discontinued by Mozilla, but if you still > want to look at this OS you have several options anyway: > > You can find the code here which is stored under B2G OS , on which Firefox > OS is based. > > https://github.com/mozilla-b2g > > Mainly,Gaia is the graphical part and B2G is the OS part > > Also B2G still has a community which is working on finding a way to keep > this OS alive, you can join the community in Telegram here > https://telegram.me/B2GOS or in irc here at #b2g (if you don't here is > how to connect to Mozilla irc <https://wiki.mozilla.org/IRC>) > > This project is at it's very beginning and aim to propose a long standing > solution for a web oriented OS some reading if you are interested in: > https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/re-create-b2g- > based-on-android/11114 > > > Finally there is AstianOS which is a fork of B2GOS you can find the source > here https://github.com/Astianos > > This is my personal view on the subject, I'm trying to be the most > objective and concise has possible to give you an overview of the > situation, so you can choose what best fits you wishes. > > > The main difference between B2G and AstianOS: > > B2G: don't plan to keep the kernel part of B2GOS it's consider to big to > maintain, and it has also a small hardware support so the current plan is > to rebase it on android and create a web interface on top of it. So Android > is for the hardware support and large community support which secure the > development on this part. > > Pros: taking all the advantage of re-using AOSP (Android Open Source) > Cons: The first step is quite high to implement the proper web rendering > engine with AOSP without too much perf impact and loosing functionality. > > > AstianOS: basicaly a pure clone of B2GOS/FireFoxOS, so everything you know > about FFOS but with a new logo. > > Pros: With the current supported hardware straightforward to use and hack > cons: small hardware support, based on quite old technology now, Gecko > 48 and Gonk , so in long term it may be difficult to maintain and more open > to security risk. > > > Both are community project that you are welcome to join if you wish to > hack around ! > > Kindly > > Matthieu. > > > > > 2017-04-09 14:33 GMT+09:00 Leonardo Souza <[email protected]>: > >> Hello, >> >> >> >> I am a Brazilian student, I am always in search of new knowledge and I >> always had a dream to understand how an operating system works. I was >> fascinated by Firefox OS, because it was done with javascript, sorry it was >> discontinued. >> >> >> >> But I want to know if there is a possibility that I can study it, see how >> it works and continue it, changing the focus a bit, because I am very >> curious about it. >> >> >> >> I researched, I did not find much about downloading the source code and >> changing it, could you help me with that? It would be helping me a lot to >> start a dream. >> >> >> >> Thank you in advance, excuse my weak English. >> >> >> >> Leonardo Vilarinho >> >> >> >> Sent from my Windows 10 phone >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-fxos mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > dev-fxos mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos > > -- <https://about.me/faheem-ahmad?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=email_sig&utm_campaign=gmail_api> Faheem Ahmad about.me/faheem-ahmad <https://about.me/faheem-ahmad?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=email_sig&utm_campaign=gmail_api>
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